Centre
Centre for Research in Literature Linguistics and Culture
Unit(s) of assessment: English Language and Literature
Research theme: Global Heritage
School: School of Arts and Humanities
Overview
The Centre for Research in Literature, Linguistics and Culture is a multi- and interdisciplinary hub that promotes research innovation across Literary Studies, Linguistics, and Media, Film, and TV Studies. Our work advances new directions in criticism and scholarship, and we work with our partners to develop research that is culturally and socially significant, and publicly valuable. The Centre is comprised of five Research Groups which represent our collaborative and interdisciplinary strengths. The Centre has attracted funding from the AHRC, Arts Council, England, British Academy, ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.
Research groups
Critical Poetics Research Group
The Critical Poetics Research Group is interdisciplinary in focus and stimulates debate, collaboration and innovation among scholars and practitioners whose work is concerned with creative and critical theory and practice. It explores texts and theoretical applications to texts that are engendered by unconventional, unexpected, and cross-disciplinary approaches.
Language, Identities and Institutions Research Group
These researchers bring analytical skills and insights drawn from critical journalism studies, sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, critical stylistics, cultural studies and political communication to bear on a wide range of institutions and social practices. Examples of current research include raising the awareness of regional language variation, the mapping and preservation of threatened language varieties and the application of language analysis to improve the delivery of justice in court.
Media and Film Cultures Research Group
The Media and Film Cultures Research Group undertakes research focussed on British and European cinema and politics, global queer cinema and international LGBTQ documentary, Japanese and Korean film and television, often focusing on questions of gender, sexuality and sexist abuse as well as migrants’ experiences and empowerment and the roles of journalism and democracy.
Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group
The Postcolonial and Global Studies Research Group advances critical thought relating to colonialism, neo-colonialism, postcolonialism and globalisation. It works with activist and refugee groups, publishers, writers’ agencies and literary and cultural organisations to create platforms for exploring diverse cultural voices and texts that challenge postcolonial and global forms of marginalisation and exclusion.
Periodicals and Print Cultures Research Group
The Periodicals and Print Cultures Research Group develops research on the study of modern periodicals and print culture from the nineteenth century to the present. It is concerned with the material culture of periodicals, books, newspapers, pamphlets, comics, zines and other forms of print ephemera as well as with literary histories and the digital manifestations of these objects and artefacts.
Our partners
The team has long-established connections with external organisations, including galleries, arts centres, libraries and literary festivals. Our current partners include:
Department of Kannada and Culture (India) | Bonington Gallery | D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum | Mansfield Museum |
Broadway Cinema | Nottingham Contemporary | New Art Exchange | Vanclaron CIC |
King Richard III Visitor Centre, Leicester | Feminist Archive East Midlands | European Society for Periodical Research | Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature |
Friends of the Women's Library | Nottingham Women’s History Group | British Library | HEAL collective |
International Association for Performing Arts & Research (India) | National Coalmining Museums of England/Scotland/Wales | International Council of Monuments and Sites | Trent Rivers Trust |
Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum | Science Museum, London | ChalleNGe Nottingham | Hyderabad Literary Festival |
Ravindra Kalakshetra Cultural Centre (India) | Nottingham Playhouse | Inspire Libraries | Korean Film Archive |
Five Leaves Bookshop | Sparrows’ Nest Archive | Museums Scotland | Raw Print |
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Publications
Indicative publications include:
- Heather Alberro, ‘“The Great Refusal”: Radical Environmental Resistance Against Contemporary Ecological Breakdown’ in Elisa Orofino & William Allchorn (eds), The Routledge Handbook on Non-Violent Extremism (London: Routledge, 2023)
- Natalie Braber, Harriet Smith & Jeremy Robson, ‘Assessing the Specificity and Accuracy of Accent Judgments by Lay Listeners‘,Language and Speech 66:2 (2023)
- Sarah Jackson, Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (London: Bloomsbury, 2023)
- Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, and Cecile Roudeau (eds), New Perspectives on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Reading with and against the Grain (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, (forthcoming 2023)
- Andrew Thacker & Tim Satterthwaite (eds), Magazines and Modern Identities: Global Cultures of the Illustrated Press (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
- Andreas Wittel and Bachmann, ‘Solidarity in the digital commons’, in Kerstin Schmidt & Joost Van Loon, Herausforderung Solidarität: Konzepte - Kontroversen – Perspektiven (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2023).
- Elif Akçalı, Cüneyt Çakırlar, Özlem Güçlü, Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (London: Routledge, 2022).
- Heather Alberro, ‘H.G Wells, Earthly and Post-Terrestrial Futures’. Futures, 140 (2022)
- Ellie Byrne, Liam Connell & Philip Leonard, Troubling Globalisation, Parallax 27:1 (2021)
- Laura Coffey-Glover & Jai Mackenzie, ‘Balancing family time with fighting villains: Gender, agency and social action in the representation of Disney heroes’, Gender and Language 16:4 (2022)
- Nicole Thiara, ‘The Caste of Nature: Wholesome Bodies and Parasites in Bimal Roy’s Sujata and Gogu Shyamala’s “A Beauteous Light”, in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India, eds. Judith Misrahi-Barak and Joshil K. Abraham (Routledge, 2022)
- Rory Waterman, ‘Walter de la Mare, W. H. Davies, and Georgian poetry’, in Yui Kajita, Angela Leighton and A.J. Nickerson (eds), Walter de la Mare: critical appraisals. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022)
- Jamie Williams & David Wright, ‘Ambiguity, responsibility and political action in the UK daily COVID-19 briefings’, Critical Discourse Studies 20 (2023)
- David Wright, Jeremy Robson, Helen Murray-Edwards & Natalie Braber, ‘The pragmatic functions of ‘respect’ in lawyers' courtroom discourse: A case study of Brexit hearings’, Journal of Pragmatics 187 (2022)
- Anna Ball, Forced Migration in the Feminist Imagination: Transcultural Movements (London: Routledge, 2021)
- Sarah Carter, Early Modern Intertextuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
- Annalise Grice, D. H. Lawrence and the Literary Marketplace (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
- Annalise Grice, ‘It is astonishing how little literature has to show of the life of the poor: Ford Madox Ford’s English Review and D. H. Lawrence’s Early Fiction’, in The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture eds. Elke D’hoker and Chris Mourant (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
- Sarah Jackson, ‘Calling without calling: Barghouti, Derrida and “the international day of telephones”’, Textual Practice, (2021)
- Peter Smith, ‘“Blood and soil”: Richard II and the politics of landscape’, in: Michael Davies & Andrew Duxfield (eds), Richard II: A Critical Reader (London: Bloomsbury Arden, 2022)
- Andrew Thacker, ‘“Also I do like the moderns”” Reading Jean Rhys’s Reading’, in Juliana Lopoukhine, Frédéric Regard & Kerry-Jane Wallert, Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)
- Rory Waterman, WH Davis: Essays on the Super-Tramp Poet (London: Anthem Press, 2021)
- Rory Waterman, Wendy Cope (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021)
- Rory Waterman & Anthony Caleshu (eds), Poetry and Covid-19: An Anthology of Contemporary International and Collaborative Poetry (Swindon: Shearsman Press, 2021)
- Robbie Love & David Wright, ‘Specifying challenges in transcribing covert recordings: implications for forensic transcription’, Frontiers in Communication 6 (2021)
News
Distinguished Professor becomes NTU’s first elected to the British Academy
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Sharon Monteith's book wins second international prize
Mon 5 Sep 2022
Regional accents are a bar to legal careers, researchers find
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Expert blog: Can New Weird Fiction Help Us Tackle the Climate Crisis?
Wed 22 Mar 2023
Accountability for COVID-19 policies was blurred during televised briefings, study shows
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Saying ‘respect’ in court can in fact mean the opposite, study shows
Thu 6 Jan 2022
Expert blog: Perfect storm for a Black revolution
Mon 10 May 2021
PhD students
We supervise a number of research students in the Centre.
AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership scholarships
Applications are open between October and January each year.